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# What happens when an app goes down? All about outages

**[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 11 min read · 8 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Discover the different types of major outages that can occur, including frontend, backend, and networking outages. Learn about the causes of these outages and why they can take time to resolve.

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